The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

held in Paris
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is at Carlsbad
drinking the waters and hoping to get rid of the
govt, which is troubling her.
Col. FRED GRANT has gone to Europe-some
say to escort his sister, Mrs. Sartoris, to this
country on her promised visit.
JOHN l.. SULLIvAN's exhibition at Nantasket
netted exactly 81, 500, which is to go toward the
erection of a church at that place.
JOAQUIN MILLER las been appointed by the
Governor of California a commissioner to repre-
sent that State at the forestry congress at Spring
field, Ill. next month.
IN filing out a death certificate a Buffalo
physician attested that the contributing cause of
death was Group cure made and sold by another
doctor OF the same city.
DR.. DAVID R. KERR, the editor of the Pitts
burg United Presbyterian, is famed for life by
his recent fall, at Kiskiminetas springs. He is
past seventy five, but is still in editorial har-
ness.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African explorer it is
said. never tells what he is going to do, march
ing on day after day through the wilderness.
letting his men learn his plans as they take
shape.
MTLT G. BARLOW, the wel-known minstrel.
who has been in Ludlow-street jail, New York,
since last February in proceedings instituted
by his wife for divorce aud alimony, is seeking
to procure his discharge bs habeas corpus.
IT is reported that "Woman's Bible" is
to be prepared by female revisers. They are
going to search out the true definition of leading
texts that may make for suffrage, dress reform
and other details of feminine manliness and see
II they can't strengthen their case.
DIR. ELIZABETH BEATTY, of Indore sent out
by the Presbyterian Church Of Canada as a
medical missionary. has treated over 5000
patients in the past twelve months. and thinks
a hospital and training school for Hindoo women
would make thousands of converts to Christi
anlty.
OF the eighty-two who offered them
selves last year to the Church Missionary, of
England, only thrty-four accepted. The
applications of the remainder constituting more
than half of those desiring to go upon foreign
missions, had to be refused, owing to some def
cheney.
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON is considered the rich
est man in Philadelphia He is said to be worth
$40. 900. 900. ell of which he made himself. He
is old bachelor, and the word .oldr is used
advisedly, for he has passed his eighty-ffth
birthday. He has been very charitable since he
grew wealthy, and has been known TO give away
$500, 1000 in year. He has of late grown very
weak, and his lease of life approaches it's limit
He has never been addicted display and has
lived in quiet and unostentatious manner.
TIE suite of rooms engaged by President
Cleveland at the Lafayette Hotel. Philadelphia.
for his use during the celebration to be over
hauled and redecorated They take in the
whole Broad street front of the hotel on the
parlors. Mrs Cleveland's room will be daintily
upb ostered in blue and gold Governor Beaver
has engaged the two parors adjoining Mr..
Cleveland's suite. He is a light sleeper, how
ever, and has engaged chamber way up at the
top and back of the hotel, to be out of
range of the street noises.
AMONG the stories told Of the late Katkoff is
good one explaining Bismarck's luminosity toward
the famous editor. On one occasion, before the
war with France, the Chancellor attempted to
buy Katkoff's pen. and negotiations to that ef-
feet were begun by the Prussian Minister at ST.
Petersburg, One fine day the editor demanded
an official note from the Chancellor which he
received in a few days, with check. signed, but
the space for the amount left for the editor
fill out This was katkoffs opportunity, and he
made the most of it by printing the documents
in the Gazette. No wonder Bismarck got mad
and stayed mad.
Mrs. EMILY CRAWFORD is the Paris CORE
spondsnt OF the London Daily News and a con-
tributor to numerous English and American
publications. Mrs. Crawford's husband for
many years the correspondent of the Daily
News and he was always ably seconded by the
faithful companion of his life. Since his death
Mrs. Crawford, aided by of her sons, has
glish daily. She is the best paid woman CORE
spondent in Paris, receiving. it is believed.
$4,000 year from the Lon don Daily News and
So. 600 year from Truth and one other paper
for a weekly letter
IN New York they tell tales of bookseller
who buys books at auction here in the spring,
takes them with him to Paris in trunk in the
summer ships them back to his store in the
fall in cases that are opened in the presence of
fabbereasted book men. He shows Paris in
voice for them Sometimes it is the library of
Marquis, sometimes the collection of cousin
to descendant of governess of the Queens
children. The trick is said 20 pay we'll; doubt
less it does, judging by brettos that fetch from
SIS TO $50 for having been in the Tueries IL
brary f.as witness the binding with its large,
gilded initial NJ but these things manu-
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Michel.
THE graves of three famous men have lately |
been visited by Boston Transcript writer.
"The pink white rock" he says. 'is the only
memorial that marks the grave of Emerson-a
sufficient one for this generation at least, which
needs no carved record to mark the burial-place |
of its greatest native spiritual guide. The little
slab at the head of the long grave in the nclos-
ure of arbor-vita bears upon it the name of |
.Hawthorne'-that is all The low head and |
foot-stones have already grown messy and |
Gent in the shade on the hilltop. And the third |
gravestone bears upon it the name of Henry D. |
Thoreau. and the brief record of the birth and |
death of the man whose wood notes still SO |
widely echo Where else in all the world can be |
found the clustering graves of three great men |
that simply marked as theseP
TIE .'mi' in telegraphy has caused consider
able trouble in messages handled by inexper- |
fenced operators, and sometimes frst-class
one gets caught. 1910 K st. Boston. is Milk
street, Boston, and 10 Waukee" Is Milwaukee
Here's bull that beats them all. 1t happened
in special, and perpetrated by firstclass
operator: Guaranteed for forty eight hams"
When 1t was corrected it read: ..Quarantinec
for fortv-eieht hours Here's another that |
caused considerable trouble to the operator.
The address as he took it was: Gen. Bagen-
teryD Two days afterwards it was found to
mean: "Gen. Bag Agt. Erie Ry." The Boston
Herald once came out with big headline:
1.-THE Yo King Enthronedm 1t should have
been: 1.-THE Ice King Enthroned." All through
+ho afeh w could
in that ..Yo King" he did it and it was printed
that way.
FREDERICK ALFRED KRUPP, son and heir of
the great iron king who died recently, has issued
this address to his at Essen: ITO the
officials and workmen Of my steel-works On
my return from the tomb of my never.o-he for